SE Depth

[DFXer]

Yesterday I spent the day at my favorite Maine beach and absolutely convinced myself that the SE is the deepest seeking metal detector that I've ever used. I used all metal mode and manual sensitivity at 32 where possible. I now have another layer of targets that should keep me busy until next November.

The question now is "what makes it go so deep"? Is it superior ground rejection, the multiple frequencies or is it in the digital signal analysis software? Any technical experts out there who can answer this question?

Also - has anyone heard the rumors of a three frequency DFX coming out?

Paul

 

[digitrich]

Salt my friend, wet salt. The great conductor of the earth. Careful with your coil size as if you use too large of a coil you will loose the benefit of the salt. Salt is a form of mineralisation. A little bit, with water can actually increase the depths you are getting. A little bit more and the only thing your machine picks up is the mineralisation itself and kills your depth. Some beaches I was able to get away with using a coil as big as the Sun Ray 12. Others, anything bigger than the stock ten wouldn't work well, but that stock ten was pulling dimes at 16 and 18 inches easy. I mean strong signals that sounded like they were on the surface, easy. Watch your gain if you start falsing allot, 6 or 7 always worked well for me. Remember the SE is not waterproof and rinse off the salt off the 5 pin connectors every day because their a weak metal that the salt corrodes quickly. Rinse the sand out of your coil covers and your Sun Ray probe cable strain relief as the sand left will cause falsing on both.

 

[digitrich]

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